UB Fish

I’m trying to play poker more often on UB again, especially after someone used my username during signup and I got $100 in bonus money. There had been a stretch where I hadn’t played for a few weeks and it just didn’t feel right. Over the past few days I’ve gone back to playing the .25/.50 6-seated tables. I seem to do a lot better (as far as winning $) at the 6, rather than the 10-seat tables and have come to a conclusion. It’s because I can make more “moves” at these tables and don’t have to worry about 3 fish calling me to the river with garbage hands, catching their miracle card on the river. As far as online poker goes, it’s also a much better game. The 10-seat tables attract most of the fish if you ask me and it’s hard to play against too many at once.

After winning $5 in about 30-40 minutes last night, I decided to throw around some play chips playing heads-up. I jumped onto the highest no-limit table offered and waited for someone to sit across from me. I proceeded to bankrupt the poor bastard in 4 minutes…took over 225,000 chips from him. I waited for another opponent and ended up taking him for more. Took about 280,000 in 5 minutes! My play chip bankroll now stands at over 1.25 million! :mrgreen: I’ve been playing on UB for over 8 months now and have only rebought play chips once the entire time…the very first day I played. My game has come a long way since that day, but as everything, it’s a work in progress.

No Sweep For You!

Looks like the Lakers won’t be sweeping the Pistons. Nobody game Detroit a chance, but they walked into L.A. and stole game 1 in convincing fashion. Their defense was simply amazing as usual. Just keep working hard and good things come your way.

The Laziness Ends

Trek 4100You’re looking at my latest purchase. A Trek 4100 Mountain Bike. I’ve been trying to get myself to start running several times a week, but it just wasn’t happening. This bike will be the cure for my laziness.

Mo and I went out to the Saginaw Valley Rail Trail and rode 11 or 12 miles. What a great workout! I’m dreading how my legs and back will feel tomorrow. The trail was flat, paved, and peaceful. I was actually suprised at how many people were out on the trail, but it is a gorgeous day out. We’ll have to find some trails through the woods, because those are always fun.

I also bought a little bag to hold my keys, cell phone, and wallet. Now I need a odometer/speedometer and a car rack. With the wheel off I can fit the bike in my backseat, but the truck is out of the question since my rear seat doesn’t fold down. It would be so much more convenient to load up a few bikes instead of having to take seperate vehicles like we did today.

I’m excited, but then again, I’m always excited when I make a big purchase. 😀

Moving West

After two recent trips to California, I’ve decided that I want to move out west. I simply love it out there. The weather is great, the views are spectacular, and there are a ton of things to do. I’ve been to San Diego and Sacramento…loved them both. I’m not exactly sure where in the west I’d like to live, so it’s pretty wide open right now. If anyone has any suggestions I’d love to hear about them. I’m giving myself a goal of 2 years to be out there.

Photos Are Back

The Photos section of the site is back. It needs a lot of work, but at least it’s there again. I decided to only upload the “important” pictures from the old setup, but I’ll upload new ones as the days go by. It’s a nice and simple interface, which I really like. I’m using SPAM/iPAP to mange the photo albums and it works well. The software needs a lot of improvements, but those will come with time.

Some of the things I would like to see are:

  • Resizing of images on upload.
  • Saving images into folders based on the album, instead of one folder for all of the images.
  • Rotating of images based on EXIF data.
  • Use MySQL or some derivative instead of a flat database file.
  • Better ability for templating. The CSS should be moved out into a seperate file and PHP code should be allowed in the templates.
  • Deleting albums and images doesn’t work quite right yet.
  • Batch uploading. Currently I have to individually choose the images (maximum of eight). I would like to see an option where I could choose a folder and upload everything from it, or upload a zip file that would be unzipped once on the server.

The future looks bright for this piece of software as long as development doesn’t stop. 🙂

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